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We live in a world of big data: the amount of information collected on human behavior each day is staggering, and exponentially greater than at any time in the past. Additionally, powerful algorithms are capable of churning through seas of data to uncover patterns. Providing a simple and accessible introduction to data mining, Paul Attewell and David B. Monaghan discuss how data mining substantially differs from conventional statistical modeling familiar to most social scientists. The authors also empower social scientists to tap into these new resources and incorporate data mining methodologies in their analytical toolkits. Data Mining for the Social Sciences demystifies the process by describing the diverse set of techniques available, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches, and giving practical demonstrations of how to carry out analyses using tools in various statistical software packages.

Social sciences --- Data mining. --- Algorithmic knowledge discovery --- Factual data analysis --- KDD (Information retrieval) --- Knowledge discovery in data --- Knowledge discovery in databases --- Mining, Data --- Database searching --- Data processing. --- Statistical methods. --- analyzing data. --- bayesian networks. --- big data. --- bootstrapping. --- business analytics. --- chaid. --- classification and regression trees. --- classification trees. --- confusion matrix. --- data analysis. --- data mining. --- data processing. --- data scholarship. --- data science. --- hardware for data mining. --- heteroscedasticity. --- naive bayes. --- partition trees. --- permutation tests. --- scholarly data. --- social science. --- social scientists. --- software for data mining. --- statistical methods. --- statistical modeling. --- studying data. --- text mining. --- vif regression. --- weka.

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The measurement of economic entities' financial strength is one of the significant challenges of modern economic and financial research. With increased financial globalization, faster economic changes, and a new dimension of increased financial risk in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis due to its biological nature and broad scope, affecting the whole world simultaneously, the issue of forecasting financial energy is gaining much more importance currently. This Special Issue entitled „Challenge and Research Trends of Forecasting Financial Energy” is devoted to the broad research area of forecasting financial energy of economic units such as enterprises, households, local governments, etc. Conceptualizing the term of financial energy, we aim to capture a wide spectrum of predicting and evaluating the financial standing, including various aspects of corporate finance, personal finance, and public finance.

Development economics & emerging economies --- economics of family --- personal finance --- financial energy --- forecasting --- bankruptcy of households --- financial health --- consumer finance --- consequences of COVID-19 --- farms --- factors determining the propensity to use external capital --- logistic regression --- classification and regression trees (CRT) --- Central Pomerania --- Poland --- COVID-19 --- pandemic --- company’s performance --- crude oil --- energy markets --- technical trading rules --- predictability --- data snooping --- market efficiency --- COVID-19 pandemic --- hold-up problem --- natural gas --- transit country --- gas wars --- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) --- sustainable entrepreneurship --- family firm --- managerial overconfidence --- financial strategy --- electric cars --- Asia --- ASEAN --- tax incentives --- development forecasts --- economics of family --- personal finance --- financial energy --- forecasting --- bankruptcy of households --- financial health --- consumer finance --- consequences of COVID-19 --- farms --- factors determining the propensity to use external capital --- logistic regression --- classification and regression trees (CRT) --- Central Pomerania --- Poland --- COVID-19 --- pandemic --- company’s performance --- crude oil --- energy markets --- technical trading rules --- predictability --- data snooping --- market efficiency --- COVID-19 pandemic --- hold-up problem --- natural gas --- transit country --- gas wars --- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) --- sustainable entrepreneurship --- family firm --- managerial overconfidence --- financial strategy --- electric cars --- Asia --- ASEAN --- tax incentives --- development forecasts

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The present book contains all the articles accepted and published in the Special Issue “Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Models, Optimization, and Machine Learning” of the MDPI Mathematics journal, which covers a wide range of topics connected to the theory and applications of artificial intelligence and its subfields. These topics include, among others, deep learning and classic machine learning algorithms, neural modelling, architectures and learning algorithms, biologically inspired optimization algorithms, algorithms for autonomous driving, probabilistic models and Bayesian reasoning, intelligent agents and multiagent systems. We hope that the scientific results presented in this book will serve as valuable sources of documentation and inspiration for anyone willing to pursue research in artificial intelligence, machine learning and their widespread applications.

Research & information: general --- Mathematics & science --- large margin nearest neighbor regression --- distance metrics --- prototypes --- evolutionary algorithm --- approximate differential optimization --- multiple point hill climbing --- adaptive sampling --- free radical polymerization --- autonomous driving --- object tracking --- trajectory prediction --- deep neural networks --- stochastic methods --- applied machine learning --- classification and regression --- data mining --- ensemble model --- engineering informatics --- gender-based violence in Mexico --- twitter messages --- class imbalance --- k-nearest neighbor --- instance-based learning --- graph neural network --- deep learning --- hyperparameters --- machine learning --- optimization --- inference --- metaheuristics --- animal-inspired --- exploration --- exploitation --- hot rolled strip steel --- surface defects --- defect classification --- knockout tournament --- dynamic programming algorithm --- computational complexity --- combinatorics --- intelligent transport systems --- traffic control --- spatial-temporal variable speed limit --- multi-agent systems --- reinforcement learning --- distributed W-learning --- urban motorways --- multi-agent framework --- .NET framework --- simulations --- agent-based systems --- agent algorithms --- software design --- multisensory fingerprint --- interoperability --- DeepFKTNet --- classification --- generative adversarial networks --- image classification --- transfer learning --- plastic bottle --- n/a

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The modeling and processing of empirical data is one of the main subjects and goals of statistics. Nowadays, with the development of computer science, the extraction of useful and often hidden information and patterns from data sets of different volumes and complex data sets in warehouses has been added to these goals. New and powerful statistical techniques with machine learning (ML) and data mining paradigms have been developed. To one degree or another, all of these techniques and algorithms originate from a rigorous mathematical basis, including probability theory and mathematical statistics, operational research, mathematical analysis, numerical methods, etc. Popular ML methods, such as artificial neural networks (ANN), support vector machines (SVM), decision trees, random forest (RF), among others, have generated models that can be considered as straightforward applications of optimization theory and statistical estimation. The wide arsenal of classical statistical approaches combined with powerful ML techniques allows many challenging and practical problems to be solved. This Special Issue belongs to the section “Mathematics and Computer Science”. Its aim is to establish a brief collection of carefully selected papers presenting new and original methods, data analyses, case studies, comparative studies, and other research on the topic of statistical data modeling and ML as well as their applications. Particular attention is given, but is not limited, to theories and applications in diverse areas such as computer science, medicine, engineering, banking, education, sociology, economics, among others. The resulting palette of methods, algorithms, and applications for statistical modeling and ML presented in this Special Issue is expected to contribute to the further development of research in this area. We also believe that the new knowledge acquired here as well as the applied results are attractive and useful for young scientists, doctoral students, and researchers from various scientific specialties.

mathematical competency --- assessment --- machine learning --- classification and regression tree --- CART ensembles and bagging --- ensemble model --- multivariate adaptive regression splines --- cross-validation --- dam inflow prediction --- long short-term memory --- wavelet transform --- input predictor selection --- hyper-parameter optimization --- brain-computer interface --- EEG motor imagery --- CNN-LSTM architectures --- real-time motion imagery recognition --- artificial neural networks --- banking --- hedonic prices --- housing --- quantile regression --- data quality --- citizen science --- consensus models --- clustering --- Gower’s interpolation formula --- Gower’s metric --- mixed data --- multidimensional scaling --- classification --- data-adaptive kernel functions --- image data --- multi-category classifier --- predictive models --- support vector machine --- stochastic gradient descent --- damped Newton --- convexity --- METABRIC dataset --- breast cancer subtyping --- deep forest --- multi-omics data --- categorical data --- similarity --- feature selection --- kernel density estimation --- non-linear optimization --- kernel clustering --- n/a --- Gower's interpolation formula --- Gower's metric

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The present book contains all the articles accepted and published in the Special Issue “Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Models, Optimization, and Machine Learning” of the MDPI Mathematics journal, which covers a wide range of topics connected to the theory and applications of artificial intelligence and its subfields. These topics include, among others, deep learning and classic machine learning algorithms, neural modelling, architectures and learning algorithms, biologically inspired optimization algorithms, algorithms for autonomous driving, probabilistic models and Bayesian reasoning, intelligent agents and multiagent systems. We hope that the scientific results presented in this book will serve as valuable sources of documentation and inspiration for anyone willing to pursue research in artificial intelligence, machine learning and their widespread applications.

Research & information: general --- Mathematics & science --- large margin nearest neighbor regression --- distance metrics --- prototypes --- evolutionary algorithm --- approximate differential optimization --- multiple point hill climbing --- adaptive sampling --- free radical polymerization --- autonomous driving --- object tracking --- trajectory prediction --- deep neural networks --- stochastic methods --- applied machine learning --- classification and regression --- data mining --- ensemble model --- engineering informatics --- gender-based violence in Mexico --- twitter messages --- class imbalance --- k-nearest neighbor --- instance-based learning --- graph neural network --- deep learning --- hyperparameters --- machine learning --- optimization --- inference --- metaheuristics --- animal-inspired --- exploration --- exploitation --- hot rolled strip steel --- surface defects --- defect classification --- knockout tournament --- dynamic programming algorithm --- computational complexity --- combinatorics --- intelligent transport systems --- traffic control --- spatial-temporal variable speed limit --- multi-agent systems --- reinforcement learning --- distributed W-learning --- urban motorways --- multi-agent framework --- .NET framework --- simulations --- agent-based systems --- agent algorithms --- software design --- multisensory fingerprint --- interoperability --- DeepFKTNet --- classification --- generative adversarial networks --- image classification --- transfer learning --- plastic bottle --- large margin nearest neighbor regression --- distance metrics --- prototypes --- evolutionary algorithm --- approximate differential optimization --- multiple point hill climbing --- adaptive sampling --- free radical polymerization --- autonomous driving --- object tracking --- trajectory prediction --- deep neural networks --- stochastic methods --- applied machine learning --- classification and regression --- data mining --- ensemble model --- engineering informatics --- gender-based violence in Mexico --- twitter messages --- class imbalance --- k-nearest neighbor --- instance-based learning --- graph neural network --- deep learning --- hyperparameters --- machine learning --- optimization --- inference --- metaheuristics --- animal-inspired --- exploration --- exploitation --- hot rolled strip steel --- surface defects --- defect classification --- knockout tournament --- dynamic programming algorithm --- computational complexity --- combinatorics --- intelligent transport systems --- traffic control --- spatial-temporal variable speed limit --- multi-agent systems --- reinforcement learning --- distributed W-learning --- urban motorways --- multi-agent framework --- .NET framework --- simulations --- agent-based systems --- agent algorithms --- software design --- multisensory fingerprint --- interoperability --- DeepFKTNet --- classification --- generative adversarial networks --- image classification --- transfer learning --- plastic bottle